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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. Bob Henson High School Social Studies Teacher, Villa Hills, Kentucky In my capacity as a secondary history educator, I strategically incorporated a Democracy Now! Thank you to Louis Riel School Division!

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

Below are resources to help students probe the long history of colonialism and resistance in Palestine and Israel, the role that our own government has played — and to imagine what justice looks like. Toolkit to Defend K-12 Educators and Librarians Against False Accusations of Antisemitism compiled by Nora Lester Murad and Alice Rothchild.